<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><opml version="1.0"><!--MySmartChannels Channel Feed--><!--MySmartChannels is a service of MyST Technology Partners.--><!--See http://myst-technology.com for more information, including standard terms of service.--><head><title>Publisher's Diary | Pioneer Drama</title><dateCreated>2005-08-20 20:21:07 EDT</dateCreated><dateModified>2008-06-27 14:57:21 EDT</dateModified></head><body><outline text="Publisher's Diary | Pioneer Drama"><outline text="My office is open to you. Come on in and find out how plays are chosen. Get a glimpse at the workings of one of the largest play publishing companies in North America." isComment="true"/><outline text="New Drama Textbooks" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/183584?itemLink=open"><outline text="These books are great for elementary school." isComment="true"/><outline text="How and Why Stories for Readers Theatre" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=HOWANDWHYS&amp;id=17"/><outline text="With appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure for young readers, these 40 short scripts are a delightfully entertaining addition to any elementary classroom." isComment="true"/><outline text="Starting With Shakespeare" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=STARTINGWI&amp;id=33"/><outline text="In this book of activities, you have everything you need to introduce elementary students to four popular plays: A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet." isComment="true"/><outline text="My First Monologue Book" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=MYFIRSTMON&amp;id=72"/><outline text="This book is truly for young children?the five-to eight-year old set. The monologues provided here are comprehensible, relatable and fun!" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="New Shows From Pioneer" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/180497?itemLink=open"><outline text="It's been a long time...." isComment="true"/><outline text="LITTLE WOMEN by Scott Davidson" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=LITTLEWOME"/><outline text="Share this timeless and enduring classic about the March sisters? journey from childhood to maturity during the American Civil War." isComment="true"/><outline text="ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by Jody Johnston Davidson" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ANNEOFGREE&amp;id=0"/><outline text="Share the adventures of Anne Shirley and her ?best friend for life,? Diana Barry, as they travel from childhood to maturity in this heartwarming adaptation which beautifully captures the highlights of the classic novel." isComment="true"/><outline text="THE BIG BAD MUSICAL by Alec Strum... Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BIGBADMUSI"/><outline text="A courtroom has never been more lively and fun than in The Big Bad Musical! This smart and wickedly funny musical is great for young actors and audiences of any age." isComment="true"/><outline text="THE ROYAL BACHELOR by Martin A. Follose... Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ROYALBACHE"/><outline text="Survivor? American Idol? The Bachelor? You know them and love them, but you?ve never seen them quite like this! Mix these popular reality TV shows together in a royal setting and you have a hilarious musical!" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="More From Craig Sodaro!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/144133?itemLink=open"><outline text="This playwright has incredible talent!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Meet Craig Sodaro" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/authordetail.asp?ac=SODAROCRAI"/><outline text="His life and his Pioneer Properties!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Table of Contents For MAKE IT MYSTERY" type="link" url="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006011856.html"/><outline text="Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication." isComment="true"/><outline text="Drama club chooses 'Tea and Arsenic'" type="link" url="http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/WRT10/609270349/1878/WRTlife"/><outline text="Wisconsin Rapids Tribune" isComment="true"/><outline text="Review of Craig's JUST LIKE US" type="link" url="http://www.childrenstheaterworkshop.org/news/playrev.html"/><outline text="CTW offers a number of special programs in live theater for Toledo and area youth from 5 to 18 years old." isComment="true"/><outline text="Craig Sodaro's VEGGIE VILLAIN" type="link" url="http://spacecoasttheatre.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_eventlist&amp;Itemid=28&amp;func=details&amp;did=74"/><outline text="Produced in Melbourne" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Fun Theatre Sites for Most Kids" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/139424?itemLink=open"><outline text="Looking for interesting theatre sites to help theatre students learn about theatre?" isComment="true"/><outline text="Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare" type="link" url="http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LAMBTALE.HTM"/><outline text="Charmingly retold prose versions of twenty of the most popular plays. For kids 8-12." isComment="true"/><outline text="Dramania" type="link" url="http://www.public.asu.edu/~atbrl/dramania.html"/><outline text="&quot;Drama-y Things to Do for Kids&quot; with fun activities for One Person, Two People, Lots of People. A few links are broken, but these activities are delightful. For kids and their parents, 5-12. An older site, but still interesting." isComment="true"/><outline text="Dreaming Shakespeare" type="link" url="http://pbskids.org/lions/dreaming/"/><outline text="A PBS site with notes for parents and teachers to surf the site with their children. A fun story with a hip version of information about the plays; has quotes from Shakespeare. For kids 7-12." isComment="true"/><outline text="Folger Shakespeare Library" type="link" url="http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm"/><outline text="A great site! Kept current." isComment="true"/><outline text="Holidays: Mexico, Los Dias de los Muertos, The Days of the Dead" type="link" url="http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/holidays/muertos01.htm"/><outline text="Includes a skeleton puppet and instructions to create your own puppet play. For grades 3-5." isComment="true"/><outline text="Pioneer Drama Service Texts and Aids" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/text-aids.asp"/><outline text="These theatre textbooks and theater aids are ideal for any individual thespian or for any drama department in need of educational resources." isComment="true"/><outline text="Lynch Multimedia: Shakespeare For kids" type="link" url="http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/index2.html"/><outline text="A BBC Education Web Guide with fun illustrations and adaptations of Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Winters Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice. A good place to start the study of Shakespeare. You?ll need Java Script for much of it. For kids 8 and older." isComment="true"/><outline text="The Art of Taiko" type="link" url="http://library.thinkquest.org/5997/"/><outline text="A Thinkquest site about the art of Japanese drumming. Includes: the history, making a taiko, playing a taiko. Very nicely done. For kids 8 and older." isComment="true"/><outline text="Careers" type="link" url="http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/careers/index.htm"/><outline text="Teens. After high school, then what? Choosing a career ? in Art, Dance, Music or Theater" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Improvisation in the Drama Club" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/138422?itemLink=open"><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Acting Games" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ACTINGGAME&amp;id=0"/><outline text="This book of acting games and improvisations will assist students in developing their creative abilities. For everyone, all of the essential elements of acting and character development are explored." isComment="true"/><outline text="Improv Ideas" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=IMPROVIDEA&amp;id=2"/><outline text="This book is perfect?jam-packed with games and lists, it?s also the most user-friendly book we?ve ever seen!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Improve With Improv" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=IMPROVTHEA&amp;id=4"/><outline text="This book is a complete improvisational curriculum program divided into workshops. Each workshop contains exercises designed to help students focus on one aspect of a character's personality." isComment="true"/><outline text="Improvisations in Creative Drama" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=IMPROVCREA&amp;id=6"/><outline text="Students will learn both improvisational and structured drama by using sequential workshops and plays. This is a valuable resource for any beginning acting class or as a supplemental resource." isComment="true"/><outline text="Creative Drama Lesson Plans" type="link" url="http://www.childdrama.com/lessons.html"/><outline text="Here are links to some lesson plans for use in Creative Drama Classroom (and a few games and lessons from others as well)." isComment="true"/><outline text="Using Drama Skills In the Classroom" type="link" url="http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/resources/articles/GoodPractice/classroom/Drama_skills.asp"/><outline text="Good teachers seem to know instinctively how to use performance skills in the classroom to gain and hold students? interest." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Sending Out the Royalty Checks" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/126748?itemLink=open"><outline text="Playwrights Making Money With Their Published Plays" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="The Importance of the Drama Club" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/124824?itemLink=open"><outline text="A Drama Club Video That Shows Friendship, Community and Creative Growth" isComment="true"/><outline text="A Theatre Family" type="link" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K7o6cC2sNU&amp;search=theatre"/><outline text="Come and watch a special group of kids" isComment="true"/><outline text="Drama" type="link" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImcQz3suq-8"/><outline text="Kids Having Fun!" isComment="true"/><outline text="&quot;Flyin West&quot; performed by The NEW Group Theatre " type="link" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI6PlTj_nZQ&amp;search=drama%20group"/><outline text="A touching performance..." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="The Performance of TWINDERELLA" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/117766?itemLink=open"><outline text="Was it successful?" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Directing Middle School Actors—They Always Come Through" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/113297?itemLink=open"><outline text="It’s fun and exciting… yet often scary!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Middle Mania--Imaginative Theatre Projects for Middle School Actors" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=MIDDLEMANI&amp;id=12"/><outline text="Finally, here's a book that offers creative alternatives for middle school teachers who spend their summer sifting through piles of scripts in the quest for the perfect play." isComment="true"/><outline text="Ultimate Monologue Book for Middle School Actors" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ULTIMATEMO&amp;id=20"/><outline text="Middle school could not be more dramatic! Everything is both highly serious and seriously funny at the same time. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Looking Back and Looking Forward" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/112202?itemLink=open"><outline text="A wonderful year to look back on and a wonderful year to look forward to..." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Translations of Pioneer Drama Service Plays In the Netherlands" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/106137?itemLink=open"><outline text="I am working with a company in the Netherlands to take Pioneer Drama Service Plays to Europe" isComment="true"/><outline text="LARCENY AND OLD LACE" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=LARCENYAND&amp;id=80"/><outline text="Our first play translated by Anco Entertainment and winner of the Shubert Fendrich Playwright's Award" isComment="true"/><outline text="Anco Entertainment B.V. " type="link" url="http://www.toneeluitgeverijvink.nl/"/><outline text="Come and visit The Netherlands" isComment="true"/><outline text="PIERS CHATER-ROBINSON and PETER PAN" type="link" url="http://www.pierschaterrobinson.com/"/><outline text="Piers runs International Theatre &amp; Music Ltd. (&quot;IT&amp;M&quot;), from his London offices. He has produced and directed musical theatre productions for 20 years throughout the UK, in the Channel Islands and across Europe. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Something special is coming..." type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/104388?itemLink=open"><outline text="This is a fun creation of Pinoccio in a new fashion!" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="The New Pioneer Drama Service Website and Search Engine" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/102811?itemLink=open"><outline text="If you have been wondering where I have been, come and take a look at it." isComment="true"/><outline text="Go to Pioneer Drama Servic's New SEARCH ENGINE" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/search.asp"/><outline text="Find the perfect play for your school, church or community theatre " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Main Stage Plays Are Often Simple Scripts" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/90389?itemLink=open"><outline text="Most people in theatre education are beginning to see that classroom drama can start with easy plays and go to the stage" isComment="true"/><outline text="Play description for the one act stage play WOOING WED WIDING HOOD" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=WOOINGWEDW"/><outline text="This playscript went from classroom comedy to the stage! Wise Prince Jason, Strong Prince Justin and ordinary Loud Prince Frank all want to woo Little Red Riding Hood, who has two sisters, Big Green Riding Hood and Medium Purple Riding Hood." isComment="true"/><outline text="Artsopolis in Silicon Valley Prepares For the Show" type="link" url="http://www.artsopolis.com/?app=classDetail&amp;id=545"/><outline text="This fractured fairytale playscript is very popular with young actors" isComment="true"/><outline text="Tri-unity Christian School" type="link" url="http://www.tucs.org/principalpages.htm"/><outline text="This play, because of its fun content, is the ideal playscript for all schools." isComment="true"/><outline text="Play description for the one act playscript ROMEO AND WINIFRED" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ROMEOANDWI"/><outline text="This hilarious spoof turns Shakespeare upside down and shakes things up with a stage full of zany modern-day characters. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Teacher looks for playwriting information concerning melodramas." type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/86253?itemLink=open"><outline text="What does a teacher need to do to work with a grant given to her to have students write a play?" isComment="true"/><outline text="RUN TO THE ROUND HOUSE, NELLIE" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/runtotheroundhouse_md.html"/><outline text="One of Shubert Fendrich's most popular melodramas." isComment="true"/><outline text="BETWEEN HISSES" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BETWEENHIS&amp;id=0"/><outline text="This is a collection of authentic sing-alongs, theme music for melodrama characters and olio numbers. Also included is a section of illustrated gestures, which have become associated with melodramas." isComment="true"/><outline text="MELODRAMA: BEYOND THE BOOS AND HISSES" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/beyondhisses_md.html"/><outline text="One of the best melodrama resources on the market. A video that tells it all about melodrama." isComment="true"/><outline text="PLAY DATA BASE" type="link" url="http://www.playdatabase.com/writer.asp?writer=%7BADC7A7AE-7A79-402B-9DD4-86991C350C73%7D"/><outline text="Many other plays by Shubert Fendrich... including melodramas." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Play production goes great!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/77468?itemLink=open"><outline text="Newton Middle Drama Club pulls it together to make it a grand evening." isComment="true"/><outline text="Paper Bag Bandit Rides Again" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=PAPERBAGBA"/><outline text="It was a popular large cast one act melodrama!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Twinderella" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=TWINDERELL"/><outline text="A comedy farce that I will probably do in the Spring." isComment="true"/><outline text="Twinderella " type="link" url="http://homepage.mac.com/shawnlorette/PhotoAlbum43.html"/><outline text="Pictures of success" isComment="true"/><outline text="Peninsula Youth Theatre" type="link" url="http://www.pytnet.org/about_pyt_chronicleofshows.html"/><outline text="They do a lot of Pioneer Drama Service shows!" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Working hard to bring together my middle school production of a melodrama" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/71100?itemLink=open"><outline text="An asset: STAGING MUSICALS FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS by Maria C. Novelly and Adele Firth" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="One act melodrama production draws near...." type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/70579?itemLink=open"><outline text="Will the middle school drama school kids pull the play together?" isComment="true"/><outline text="Middle School Drama" type="link" url="http://teacherslounge.editme.com/msdrama"/><outline text="Middle School Drama. Ideas and Resource Links. Lesson Plans and Necessary Handouts." isComment="true"/><outline text="Middle Mania" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=MIDDLEMANI"/><outline text="These books help you use drama to bring pre-teens together in creative, collaborative ways. They're a great tool for fostering a drama-healthy curriculum." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Middle School Play using melodrama is drawing many students" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/68246?itemLink=open"><outline text="Starting a new drama program at Newton Middle School in Littleton, Colorado" isComment="true"/><outline text="THE PAPER BAG BANDIT RIDES AGAIN" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=PAPERBAGBA"/><outline text="This one act play... a melodrama... has been perfect for my large cast middle school actors" isComment="true"/><outline text="RASCALS UNDER THE BIG TOP" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=RASCALSUND"/><outline text="Here's another large cast melodrama" isComment="true"/><outline text="Play Directing In the School" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=PLAYSCHOOL"/><outline text="This is an excellent guide to middle school theater play directing and high school play directing" isComment="true"/><outline text="Play Director's Survival Kit" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=PLAYDIRECT"/><outline text="For the amateur theater director, this textbook is an excellent guide!" isComment="true"/><outline text="BETWEEN HISSES" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BETWEENHIS"/><outline text="An excellent resource!" isComment="true"/><outline text="BLOCKING A SCENE" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BLOCKINGAS"/><outline text="A video guide to basic staging with actors. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Dramatics Magazine and the Educational Theatre Association help to bring back memories of their Thespian Festival" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/59039?itemLink=open"><outline text="Though long ago, this Thespian Festival, filled with drama workshops, school plays and other thespian events was a thrill!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Education Theatre Association Thespian Festival" type="link" url="http://www.edta.org/our_season/thespian_festival.asp"/><outline text="My melodrama workshop has been done there!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Kokonut Kapers" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=KOKONUTKAP"/><outline text="This is the play that was chosen by the teachers!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Bill Francoeur -- Composer who has worked with Dale Wasserman who is famous for Man of La Mancha" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/authordetail.asp?ac=FRANCOEURB"/><outline text="Come and meet Bill Francoeur, the composer who is loved by high school theatre directors around the world!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Bill Francoeur worked with Dale Wasserman, famous for the musical Man of La Mancha" type="link" url="http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm77.html"/><outline text="Find out more about Man of La Mancha" isComment="true"/><outline text="Meet Dale Wasserman" type="link" url="http://www.dalewasserman.com/"/><outline text="Bill Francoeur, composer, has worked with Dale Wasserman" isComment="true"/><outline text="Remember that I did my melodrama theatre workshop at a thespian festival" type="link" url="http://www.jeffgoode.com/scripts/rt_thespian.htm"/><outline text="Interested? Give me a call at 800-333-7262" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Music Education Madness -- Doing Musical Theater Plays on a high school level" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/58107?itemLink=open"><outline text="A call from one of the top websites on Music Education" isComment="true"/><outline text="Music Education Madness Website" type="link" url="http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/"/><outline text="This is a great resource with articles, lesson plans and other valuable tools when teaching music education" isComment="true"/><outline text="Music Education Resource Directory" type="link" url="http://www.musiceducationresourcedirectory.com/"/><outline text="A wonderful website where resources for music education can be found" isComment="true"/><outline text="DUCKTAILS AND BOBBYSOX " type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=DUCKTAILSA"/><outline text="This fifties musical theater play has been a favorite of schools for over 20 years" isComment="true"/><outline text="FRIDAY KNIGHT FEVER -- A musical written with composer Bill Francoeur" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=FRIDAYKNIG"/><outline text="My most recent musical has become a Pioneer Drama Service musical theatre favorite" isComment="true"/><outline text="LITTLE LUNCHEONETTE OF TERROR -- A spoof of Little Shop of Horrors" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=LITTLELUNC"/><outline text="I came up with the title when I was dating the future Mrs. Fendrich -- Debra Fendrich" isComment="true"/><outline text="Music Education Resource Page" type="link" url="http://www.edgate.com/musichall/educator/"/><outline text="EdGate offers a suite of Web-based learning solutions that are secure, flexible, practical, user-friendly, and aligned to teaching standards. Their solutions are designed to help your district improve student performance and meet the requirements of NCLB through high-quality instructional content, test data analytics, assessment resources, and the country's most widely used parent-teacher-student communication tool." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="My first play choice at Newton Middle School in Denver, CO" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/57735?itemLink=open"><outline text="How I came to choose a large cast play for a drama club" isComment="true"/><outline text="Newton Middle School" type="link" url="http://newton.littletonpublicschools.com/"/><outline text="This will be where I have my drama club. Please note how many activities they have!" isComment="true"/><outline text="PAPERBAG BANDIT RIDES AGAIN" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=PAPERBAGBA"/><outline text="The play the school drama club will perform. Note the large cast melodrama that is only 30 minutes long. Perfect!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Between Hisses" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BETWEENHIS"/><outline text="An excellent resource for melodrama information" isComment="true"/><outline text="Melodrama: Beyond the Boos and Hisses" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BEYONDTHEB"/><outline text="This video will teach your kids everything about melodrama!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Chase M. Mitchell" type="link" url="http://www.icesk8aig.com/CHASEWEB/chase_resume.pdf"/><outline text="He performed in PAPERGAG BANDIT RIDES AGAIN" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Play season starts off with a big bang with Pioneer Drama Service" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/57064?itemLink=open"><outline text="Children's Play Productions, Mystery Plays, Full Length Plays are big sellers" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Excited to be head of Drama Club at Newton Middle School!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/56448?itemLink=open"><outline text="It's time to update everything! Stage lighting for a high school stage? Theatre makeup for a high school? What will I need." isComment="true"/><outline text="A theater textbook entitled EVERYTHING ABOUT THEATER" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=EVERYTHING"/><outline text="This book is an excellent text which has a teacher's guide. Great for classroom drama theater classes!" isComment="true"/><outline text="A theater book on Reader's Theatre" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=INTRODUCTI"/><outline text="Reader's Theater is a great style of drama that is perfect for middle school and high school students!" isComment="true"/><outline text="111 Shakespeare Monologues" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=111SHAKESP"/><outline text="This book is one of many that Pioneer carries that will help kids become familiar with Shakespeare" isComment="true"/><outline text="IMPROVISATIONAL STARTERS--A book to help kids get started in improvisational theatre" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=IMPROVISAT"/><outline text="Need the ideas for school improvisational theater. Check this out!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Ben Nye Company, Inc." type="link" url="http://www.bennyemakeup.com"/><outline text="Pioneer Drama Service carries Ben Nye Makeup. Check out their website!" isComment="true"/><outline text="THEATRE ARTS VIDEO LIBRARY" type="link" url="http://www.theatreartsvideo.com"/><outline text="Theatre Arts Video Library produces and distributes instructional video programs for all levels of theatre training. " isComment="true"/><outline text="Curtains, rigging and theatrical supplies" type="link" url="http://www.iweiss.com"/><outline text="They are one of the best in backdrops, digital printing and fiber optics" isComment="true"/><outline text="Rose Brand" type="link" url="http://www.rosebrand.com"/><outline text="Rose Brand manufactures custom drapery, scrips, backdrops, cycloramas, star drops, and digital murals used in school theaters" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Meeting new playwrights and being with Terry Dodd, Playwright, Lee Blessing, Playwright and Steven Dietz, Playwright on Panel" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/52486?itemLink=open"><outline text="I was proud to be with Lee Blessing, playwright, nominated for Pulitzer Prize and other writers and directors" isComment="true"/><outline text="Lee Blessing, playwright, was part of a panel with Steven Fendrich, publisher of Pioneer Drama Service" type="link" url="http://www.signaturetheatre.org/playwrights/leeblessing/lblessing.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Steven Dietz, playwright, was part of the panel with Steven Fendrich, publisher of Pioneer Drama Service" type="link" url="http://www.theatrescene.net/ts%5Carticles.nsf/0/3947A7359611F17185256CF30016C049?OpenDocument"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Aoise Stratford, playwright, was exciting to work with on panel with Pioneer Drama Service" type="link" url="http://www.threewisemonkeys.org/"/><outline text="Aoise Stratford is Chief Advisor to the Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company in San Francisco" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Enjoyed talk with Nikki Mondschein, former winner of Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/48774?itemLink=open"><outline text="Nikki has gone on to do some great things in playwriting" isComment="true"/><outline text="Meet Nikki Leigh Mondschein" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/authordetail.asp?ac=MONDSCHEIN"/><outline text="Previous winner of the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Award" isComment="true"/><outline text="Nikki Leigh Mondshein's award winning play" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=CHARACTERS"/><outline text="CHARACTERS, an award winning full length play" isComment="true"/><outline text="Nikki is a participant in a performance and politics seminar" type="link" url="http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/brazil/participants2000.shtml"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Nikki is a participant in the The Second Annual CISA Five College Student Symposium " type="link" url="http://www.fivecolleges.edu/cisa/NewFiles/symp1999.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Coming soon! New Fall Catalog featuring one act play scripts, full length play scripts, musical play scripts, melodrama play scripts, Christmas play scripts, children's theater play scripts and theatre textbooks!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/40075?itemLink=open"><outline text="The summer has been filled with hard work and excitement, developing playscripts that are the best!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Plays For Young Audiences from Pioneer Drama Service" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/plays-child.asp"/><outline text="Large selection of Pioneer Drama Service Plays For Young Audiences" isComment="true"/><outline text="Plays For Young Audiences" type="link" url="http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org/"/><outline text="Welcome to Plays for Young Audiences, a partnership venture between Seattle Children's Theatre and The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis." isComment="true"/><outline text="Cynthia L. Cooper" type="link" url="http://www.cyncooperwriter.net/work3.htm"/><outline text="Her plays include 10 full-lengths, 20 one-acts, and five plays for young people. Play publications include Heinemann, Applause, Smith-Kraus, Holt, Paper Mache Press, Brooklyn Publishers, and others." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="A source for drama teachers who need classroom skits, classroom plays or classroom drama!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/22411?itemLink=open"><outline text="Children's theatre plays, high school drama playscripts, middle school drama playscripts and classroom skits." isComment="true"/><outline text="The Materpiece Theatre" type="link" url="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/"/><outline text="Check out what's happening..." isComment="true"/><outline text="Playscripts, Inc." type="link" url="http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=193"/><outline text="They have playscripts, too!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Moonstruck Drama Bookstore" type="link" url="http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/links.htm"/><outline text="They have a ton of theatre links!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Cool Characters for Kids" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=COOLCHARAC"/><outline text="The characters in this book were created to showcase the talent and personality of the actors performing them. The monologues are one minute and under-perfect for a child's memorization capabilities." isComment="true"/><outline text="Sketch-O-Frenia" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=SKETCHOFRE"/><outline text="Actors have the chance to perform wildly different character types in off-the-wall situations. Imagine ants, fish and other unlikely creatures satirizing everything we consider normal and acceptable! More..." isComment="true"/><outline text="Childsplay" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=CHILDSPLAY"/><outline text="Scenes and monologues come from such plays and films as The Diary of Anne Frank, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Secret Garden and most appropriately, from writings by children themselves. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Full Length Musical Comedies and Full Length non-musical Playscripts In the Future" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/16496?itemLink=open"><outline text="Sneaking in the back to see what high school musical plays and high school playscripts are coming out!" isComment="true"/><outline text="FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER" type="link" url="http://www.ggw.org/~allsaints/subpages/news.htm"/><outline text="A delightful 70s musical comedy" isComment="true"/><outline text="FLAPPER" type="link" url="http://www.baysideplayers.org/Fall_2003%20on-line_Reg_frm.htm"/><outline text="A great musical comedy placed in the 20s" isComment="true"/><outline text="HURRICANE SMITH AND THE GARDEN OF THE GOLDEN MONKEYS" type="link" url="http://www.ci.camarillo.ca.us/play/events.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="ROBIN HOOD" type="link" url="http://www.southernin.com/Pages/archives/october_00/ctcc.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="FRIDAY KNIGHT FEVER description" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=FRIDAYKNIG"/><outline text="Who can resist smiling when thinking about the seventies? Mood rings, Magic Eight Balls, polyester leisure suits, big hair and most important of all... disco!" isComment="true"/><outline text="FLAPPER description" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=FLAPPER"/><outline text="It's the Roaring Twenties complete with raccoon coats, goldfish swallowers and gangsters! A young flapper is planning a wacky birthday party. However, trouble's in the air! " isComment="true"/><outline text="ROBIN HOOD description" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ROBINMUSIC"/><outline text="Robin Hood is leading a merry life with his followers in Sherwood Forest. Unfortunately, the evil Prince John is waging a personal war against Robin Hood. This is family entertainment at its utmost." isComment="true"/><outline text="HURRICANE SMITH description" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=HURRICANET"/><outline text="Parachute jumps! Bizarre jungle rites! (And that's just for starters.) Did we forget to mention the Cobra People? The Pot of Death? The Pit of No Return? Well, you get the idea." isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Pioneer Drama Service, founder, Shubert Fendrich! His life was theatre! Filled with educational plays, entertaining plays, school plays, and community theater plays!" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/14843?itemLink=open"><outline text="Full length plays, full length musicals, one act plays... he wrote 'em all!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch " type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=BLAZINGGUN"/><outline text="Our hero, Harry Heartstone, is in hot pursuit of the villain, Snipe Vermin. Here the story takes an unusual turn because the villain and hero are twin brothers (played by the same actor.) " isComment="true"/><outline text="Ducktails &amp; Bobbysox" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=DUCKTAILSA"/><outline text="Fifties rock 'n' roll star Curtis Jackson pays a surprise visit to the small town of Victor where he encounters a host of hilarious characters and madcap happenings." isComment="true"/><outline text="Give My Regards to Boadway " type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=GIVEMYREGA"/><outline text="Dick Foster's Broadway show is opening, but he's having serious problems. An aspiring young actress walks on the stage and could be the one to save the show, if only they had the money to put it on. " isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="School comedy theater and School Drama Theatre" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/14385?itemLink=open"><outline text="Creating a middle school drama club with a melodrama" isComment="true"/><outline text="The Vile Veterinarian" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/vile_md.html"/><outline text="An evil man wants gold... and not the animals." isComment="true"/><outline text="The Pony Expresso" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/pony_md.html"/><outline text="Watch out Starbucks!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Dunbar Elementary School has fun with a melodrama!" type="link" url="http://www.dunbarschool.com/Play.html"/><outline text="Cheers for them!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Pony Expresso performed in Wyoming" type="link" url="http://www.plattevalleyarts.com/Grand%20Encampment%20Opera%20Company.htm"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Between Hisses" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/betweenhisses_md.html"/><outline text="The best book on the market for putting on a melodrama." isComment="true"/><outline text="Melodrama: Beyond the Boos and Hisses" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/beyondhisses_md.html"/><outline text="A video guide to put on a melodrama" isComment="true"/><outline text="The Pony Expresso Coffee Shop?" type="link" url="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/10/02/northernhills/news01.txt"/><outline text="It isn't the play but it exists." isComment="true"/><outline text="Pictures from a community theatre production of Pony Expresso" type="link" url="http://www.shopkansas.net/fct/clue.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="Vile Veterinarian is a winner!" type="link" url="http://www.sunol.net/srt/"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="South Dakota High School State Fine Arts Championship" type="link" url="http://sports.sdpb.org/archive/0102/finearts/oneacts/b/index.htm"/><outline text="James Valley Christian High School Receives &quot;Superior&quot; Award with Pony Expresso!" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Another day, more popular middle school musicals and high school musicals" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/14035?itemLink=open"><outline text="Our musicals, musicals for children and musicals for middle school drama clubs and high school drama clubs are the best the nation has to offer." isComment="true"/><outline text="KILROY WAS HERE" type="link" url="http://www.achs.lake.k12.il.us/Drama/spring99/Kilroy.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="ENCHANTMENT OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST" type="link" url="http://www.goodshepherd.org/Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast.htm"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="SLEEPY HOLLOW" type="link" url="http://www.stchas.edu/events/upcomypt.shtml"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="FLAPPER" type="link" url="http://www.stchas.edu/events/upcomypt.shtml"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="ROCK AROUND THE BLOCK" type="link" url="http://rmsstudents.watertown.k12.wi.us/Student_Activities/drama/drama_club.htm"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="WAGON WHEELS WEST" type="link" url="http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/01.31.01/wagonwheelswest-0105.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="STORY OF HANSEL AND GRETEL" type="link" url="http://www.wsc.edu/administration/college_relations/press_releases/2002/03/502hanselgretel.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="A LITTLE PRINCESS" type="link" url="http://www.gcplayhouse.org/data/gcp_plays/princess.htm"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/><outline text="GROOVY" type="link" url="http://www.ecm-inc.com/news/princeton/2003/march/13musical.html"/><outline text="" isComment="true"/></outline><outline text="Children's Theatre Plays and Children's Theatre Musicals" type="link" url="http://playsandmusicalsnewsletter.pioneerdrama.com/public/item/13689?itemLink=open"><outline text="Children's theatre: What are my suggestions?" isComment="true"/><outline text="Enchanted Sleeping Beauty - Book by Vera Morris, Music and Lyrics by Bill Francoeur" type="link" url="http://www.evct.org/sleepingbeauty.html"/><outline text="Mesa, AZ" isComment="true"/><outline text="Little Red and the Hoods By Karen Boettcher-Tate" type="link" url="http://www.dutchcountryplayers.com/littlered.htm"/><outline text="Green Lane, PA" isComment="true"/><outline text="Wonderland" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/wonderland_m.html"/><outline text="This year's most popular children's musical!" isComment="true"/><outline text="Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/enchantmentofbeau_ym.html"/><outline text="This children's musical has a score that I can listen to for hours." isComment="true"/><outline text="Rapunzel" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/rapunzel_pya.html"/><outline text="A Karen Boettcher-Tate show that everyone loves." isComment="true"/><outline text="Velveteen Rabbit" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/catalog/velveteen_pya.html"/><outline text="This makes the perfect children's play for Christmas or any time of the year." isComment="true"/><outline text="Your choice!" type="link" url="http://www.pioneerdrama.com/headings/catalog.html"/><outline text="Browse through all of the shows and give me a call if you have questions." isComment="true"/></outline></outline></body></opml>